Chapter 208: Fake Pregnancy to Deceive Me
After Lin An left, everyone around him seemed relieved.
Especially He Cairen, his whole body had become relaxed. The originally tense waist has now relaxed.
She raised her head and looked at Shen Fu with pride.
That look seemed to be saying, you're dead!
Chen Fu looked at He Cairen's determined look and sneered in her heart.
Her eyes turned, her curled eyelashes trembled slightly, and she looked at the Emperor in shock.
"Your Majesty, don't you believe me?" Chen Fu's tone was tearful and her eyes turned red in an instant.
The way she spoke to His Majesty in a delicate voice, it felt like the ending tone was almost trembling to the heart's core.
"That's not the case." When Xiao Yu saw Chen Fu like this, he felt a pain in his heart.
He hated to see Shen Fu cry the most. The tears looked ordinary, but each drop seemed to be falling into his heart.
He reached out his hand and held Shen Fu's palm, his eyes were full of tenderness and comfort: "It's just to ask someone to check it out, it won't be a big deal."
"Don't worry, I will definitely clear your name."
His Majesty whispered comfortingly, and even his eyes were filled with endless tenderness.
Shu Guipin was already feeling bitter as she watched from the sidelines, as all these treatments had belonged to her before, but now, they had all been taken away by Chen Fu.
"What is Concubine Shen afraid of?" Concubine Shu said sarcastically, "If Concubine Shen is innocent, why should she be afraid of being investigated?"
Shen Fu ruined her birthday party, and still wanted to get away with it?
Shu Guipin looked at Chen Fu with a sneer, this is simply a joke!
“I…” Chen Fu was too lazy to argue with Shu Guipin, nor was she willing to argue with her.
She looked like she had no way of defending herself. She lowered her head, tears welling up in her slightly trembling eyelashes.
The beauty looked delicate and weak.
"Shu Guipin!" His Majesty looked at Chen Fu, frowned, and glared at Shu Guipin with cold eyes.
His eyes swept across her without any mercy: "Don't speak carelessly before the matter is investigated."
Does His Majesty trust Chen Fu so much?
Shu Guipin looked at Chen Fu who was protected by His Majesty, her palms tightened, and her whole body was shaking slightly with anger.
"Before the matter was found out, did Your Majesty trust Concubine Shen so much?"
Could it be that His Majesty has no doubts about Concubine Shen at all?
Shu Guipin was biting her back teeth, and just at that moment, she heard footsteps.
Lin An came in with his men: "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
Lin An bent over and knelt on the ground, his waist lowered, and his hands holding high the red lacquer tray.
There was a jade dish on the red lacquer tray, and on it was a cup of rare and precious blood swallow's nest.
The blood swallow lamp in Lin An's hand alone is already worth a fortune, and the eunuchs behind Lin An each hold one of these tonics.
The dishes were filled with precious treasures such as ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, snow lotus and snow frog.
Even though they knew that Shen Fu was favored, when they saw something so blatantly placed in front of them, everyone realized how much favor the Emperor showed to Shen Fu.
It’s not that these things are valuable, but these rewards that come like a stream, every bit of which shows that His Majesty cares about them.
This is exactly what all the concubines wanted.
"Are all the tonics that His Majesty gave to Concubine Shen here?" Concubine Rong was obviously not surprised at all, and asked while looking at the tray in the little eunuch's hand.
"Your Highness, everything is here." Lin An bent his waist even lower and replied cautiously.
"Have you asked the imperial physician to check whether those tonics really contain drugs that cause false pregnancy?" He Cairen knelt on the ground and spoke hurriedly.
Lin An is close to His Majesty, so he naturally does things efficiently.
Hearing this, Lin An's slightly bent body seemed to stiffen a little.
"Your servant..." He looked up at the Emperor in front of him, his tone hesitant.
"What's wrong?" His Majesty held Shen Fu's hand, and looked at Lin An with a slightly frown, obviously unhappy.
Lin An's face turned pale, and he knelt down with the tray in his hand. "I just brought the imperial physician with me, and some medicinal herbs were indeed added here..."
"What medicinal herbs!"
When he said this, he didn't even dare to look at His Majesty, he just lowered his head and said, "What's added in it is... a fake pregnancy drug!"
"Fake pregnancy medicine?"
His Majesty's eyes suddenly turned cold, and his subconscious gaze fell on Shen Fu's lower abdomen, his eyes were cold: "Have you checked it out, is there really a fake pregnancy drug in it? Have you asked the imperial physician to check it?"
"Yes..." Lin An, who was closest to him, naturally noticed it. A layer of sweat broke out on his forehead. He lowered his head and stammered in reply:
"I dare not lie. I have checked everything thoroughly."
Lin An knew the importance of this matter very well, and he took the imperial physician to check several times before delivering the results to His Majesty:
"Several doctors have checked it out, and there is absolutely no mistake."
“All the tonics here have medicinal materials added to them. You can’t detect anything when you look at them individually, but when you put them together, it’s the recipe for the fake pregnancy medicine that Shen Ronghua took at that time… Exactly the same.”
"Concubine Shen takes it every day without taking anything during her meals. In addition, it is added to the tonic soup. Even if she eats it every day, others will hardly notice it."
After Lin An finished speaking, he lowered his head. He knew very well what the Emperor expected of this child.
Now that the child was fake, Lin An didn’t even dare to imagine how angry the Emperor would be.
Lin An knelt on the ground, trembling, with beads of sweat pouring down his face.
"Besides this thing, is there any other evidence?" His Majesty obviously still didn't believe that Shen Fu was the one who did this.
He took a few steps back and sat on the chair, but his eyes did not look at Shen Fu again.
"There is another witness." Lin An lowered his head and looked behind him: "Bring the person up."
"This person is the palace maid who is in charge of these medicinal herbs. Your Majesty, you can ask her anything."
As soon as Lin An finished speaking, two young eunuchs came forward together with a palace maid.
"Lingxiu?" Chen Fu squinted her eyes and looked for a long time but couldn't recognize who this person was. Instead, Zi Su, who was supporting her, called out to the person.
"Do you recognize him?" When Shen Fu saw this scene, there was still something she didn't know.
She turned her head to look at Zi Su, who immediately nodded to Shen Fu and whispered in Shen Fu's ear:
"She is the maid who guards the storehouse. Her name is Lingxiu." Zi Su leaned in front of Shen Fu and said in a low voice, "She was wandering around the yard in fancy clothes before. My lady, please send her to watch over the storehouse."
Lingxiu... Chen Fu muttered these two words silently, looking at the ground with an extremely cold look.
After Zi Su reminded her, she finally remembered that every time the Emperor came, there would be a palace maid dressed in flowery clothes standing at the door.
She thought it was an eyesore but couldn't bear to punish him, so she sent him back to the warehouse.
Unexpectedly, this palace maid would bite back at me today.
She said, how could someone drug things in her palace at will?
It turned out that someone had tampered with it.
Chen Fu looked down with cold eyes and sneered in her heart. If it weren't for today, she would probably still be kept in the dark!
"I am Lingxiu, your servant. I pay my respects to His Majesty and all the ladies." Lingxiu knelt on the ground. She was thin and looked extremely weak in the loose palace maid's uniform.
"Are you the maid who serves Concubine Shen?"
Xiao Yu looked at the person on the ground, frowning slightly: "Raise your head."
"Yes." Lingxiu straightened up, revealing a pretty face.
"I am a palace maid in the Hehuan Palace, and the young lady has always been served by me." She raised her head and looked at the Emperor in front of her. She couldn't help but open her eyes and looked at the Emperor in front of her tenderly.
But before her eyes met the Emperor's gaze, Lingxiu's heart trembled and she couldn't help but look away.
Your Majesty is so handsome, and he is an emperor. All the women in the harem, including the palace maids, want to serve the Emperor.
The same is true for Lingxiu and nature.
But every day she just watched her young mistress serve the Emperor, while she could only stand aside and watch.
She would naturally feel jealous.
Lingxiu looked at Shen Fu's figure and felt that it was unfair.
Now she also has the opportunity to stand in front of His Majesty and look at His Majesty openly.
"You are the one who is in charge of guarding the storehouse of Hehuan Palace?" Xiao Yu sat on the chair, rubbing the ring on his thumb with his fingertips.
The fingertips were rubbing very quickly, obviously showing impatience.
"Yes, I have always been the one guarding the storehouse of Hehuan Palace." Lingxiu lowered her head, her voice low and somewhat delicate.
"Of course you are the one guarding this warehouse. Didn't you add something into the medicine?" Seeing the displeasure in His Majesty's eyes, He Cairen spoke in a deep voice.
“How could you know that you didn’t secretly add it yourself to frame Concubine Shen?!”
"I dare not!" Lingxiu was so frightened that her face changed instantly and she kowtowed on the ground repeatedly.
"My lady, please let me take care of this storehouse. The tonic soup is also under my care."
Lingxiu kowtowed and spoke quickly, "But...but the young lady asked me to add a fake pregnancy drug to the supplements given by the emperor. I really don't know what was added in it."
She knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Her seemingly incoherent speech indirectly admitted the crime.
She immediately convicted Shen Fu of the crime: "I really didn't know that this medicine could make people fake pregnancy. The young lady gave the order, and I have no influence and can only do it, Your Majesty!"
Lingxiu knelt on the ground and kowtowed hard. Soon, a large red and swollen area appeared on her pretty and delicate face.
"I just can't bear to see the young lady using fake pregnancy to hide it from His Majesty, so I came here to expose it. I hope Your Majesty will punish me."
Lingxiu moved forward and backward with discretion, but her eyes were looking at His Majesty expectantly.
"Drag him away." She hoped that the Emperor would look at her with admiration, but when she stood up, she only saw these words spoken coldly.
"Long live?"
The expected situation did not occur. Lingxiu was still kneeling there, but was dragged out by two young eunuchs holding her shoulders.
"Long live the Lord, long live the Lord!!"
Lingxiu struggled on the ground, but she heard the cold voice of the emperor hitting her: "The maid exposed the master, drag her out and beat her to death!"
"Yes!" Two young eunuchs swiftly covered Lingxiu's mouth and dragged her out alive regardless of her struggle.
Soon, the sound of hitting was heard outside the house.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Concubine Shu couldn't wait to stand up and said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Shen is clearly faking her pregnancy!"
"The evidence is all here, could it be that His Majesty is still reluctant to deal with it?"
It was a waste of her time worrying about Shen Fu's pregnancy, thinking that she had been serving the Emperor for so long but had not gotten pregnant, but Shen Fu got pregnant so easily.
Unexpectedly, Shen Fu’s belly was fake!
Concubine Shu glared at His Majesty and pointed at Chen Fu's belly: "You deceived His Majesty and pretended to be pregnant to win his favor, and you even wore this priceless Bright Moon Fairy Dress to show off in front of me!"
With new and old hatreds, Concubine Shu pointed at the bright moon flowing fairy skirt on Chen Fu and gritted her teeth: "I hope Your Majesty will deal with this bitch and don't let her ruin the atmosphere of the harem."
With her armored hand pointing at Chen Fu's nose, Shu Guipin gritted her teeth, looking as if she wanted to eat Chen Fu alive!
"No, no..." Chen Fu looked extremely sad and shook her head desperately.
"How could this happen? Your Majesty, believe me, I...I did not order the maid to drug me." If you want to perform a show, you have to do it to the fullest. The stage has been set up, so Chen Fu will naturally not miss it.
"You didn't drug her?" Concubine Shu sneered, "If it wasn't you who drugged her and faked pregnancy to win her favor, then who else could it be?"
When Shen Fu heard this, she took several steps back, biting her lower lip lightly, with a few crystal clear tears in her eyes.
"How could it be? I didn't." Chen Fu's hand fell on her lower abdomen, her palm pressed tightly against it: "I didn't, Your Majesty, please believe me."
Seeing Chen Fu like this, Concubine Shu felt extremely happy. Even Xiang Guipin, who had been watching the show from the sidelines, couldn't help but stand up.
What she couldn't stand the most was those concubines who relied on their looks to be favored, treated people with their beauty, and could make the emperor's heart flutter just by relying on their faces.
Now, seeing Chen Fu's unfortunate appearance, Xiang Guipin was extremely happy and pointed at He Cairen who was kneeling on the ground and asked:
"Now that we have all the evidence, how can you defend yourself, Concubine Shen?!"
"Yes, Concubine Shen." The other concubines began to follow suit.
Sarcastic voices followed one after another: "Fake pregnancy drugs have been found in the supplements you take every day, and you still refuse to admit it."
"If you want to win the emperor's favor, you have to think about yourself. It's bad enough that you try every means to flirt with the emperor, but you're also making a fuss about your offspring. You're really too bold."
"Okay." Seeing that the matter was settled, Concubine Rong waited until everyone had finished speaking before she gently walked forward.
She sighed slightly and looked at Shen Fu, with a gentle and loving look with a bit of complaint in it: "Jieyu Shen, you are too confused."
Concubine Rong knew too well how merciless His Majesty was. In this situation today, Chen Fu could not escape: "You know how difficult it is for His Majesty to have an heir. Even if you want to win His Majesty's favor, you can't attack his heir."
"The favor that His Majesty has shown you is unique. No one in the harem can surpass you. You are still greedy and make such a big mistake. Not only do you hurt yourself, but most importantly, you also hurt His Majesty's heart."
Shen Fu listened to the people's constant rebukes and did not respond. Instead, he looked at Xiao Yu beside him: "Your Majesty, can you trust me?"
Her face was pale. She walked to His Majesty's side, stretched out her palm and placed it on His Majesty's sleeve, gently pulling a part of the sleeve: "If I say that I don't know anything about this matter, will His Majesty believe me?"
There was silence for a long time, so long that Shen Fu felt there was no sound.
After waiting for a long time, the person in front of me finally moved. His Majesty bent down from his upright position, and his shadow under the dark robe fell on Shen Fu.
There was a gloom in his narrow and long phoenix eyes. His Majesty raised his eyes slightly, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
Until Shen Fu raised her head and her eyes met His Majesty's.
The slightly drooping eyes began to move.
His Majesty opened his eyes, raised his arm, and pulled his sleeves away from Chen Fu's fingertips:
"Did you fake your pregnancy to deceive me?"
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